The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-07

cut. on the Both ult. They were car.
ried over the Falls.
Bridget Morgan a kitchen girl IN
a hotel in Chicago, while cutting ba'
nanas from a bunch on the evening
of the Goth ult., was bitten by a tar
antula in the right thumb. In a
short time her hand and arm became
terribly infamed and she suffered ex'
cruciating pain. Medical aid was had,
but the physicians were doubtful OF
her recovery.
in Shaler township, near Pitts.
burg, on the morning of the LIST.
Jennie Oswald, IL years of age, going
into the dining room, found her father,
Charles Oswald, sitting in a chair with
his throat cut, and her younger sister,
Bessie, lying on a lounge dead. 1t was
a case of suicide on the part OF Oswald,
and all the signs indicate that he muir
dered his daughter before cutting his
own throat. Oswald was 45 years of
age, and had suffered family and pecu-
mary trouble. George Ayers and Henry
Lindsay quarrelled about a debt of five
dollars at Bowling Green, Kentucky.
on the evening of the Both ult., Lind
say was on horseback and dlsmounted,
when Ayres selzed him by the throat
and cut 1t from ear to ear. Catharine
Campbell, aged "A years, OH the LIST,
quarrelled with Kate Haggerty, aged
30, In a tenement house in Brooklyn
and fractured her skull with a stove
litter. Kate is in a critical condit on.
Dennis Maher was shot dead by his
son-in-law, Richard Greedy. in New
Orleans. on the evening of the 29th
ult. Family trouble was the cause.
Edward f. Samuels, a prominent
merchant of st. Louis, on the afternoon
of the 29th ult., jumped from the
the bridge at Nashville into the river.
He was ished out, but died on the
morning of the Both. He said 'his Tea-
son for attempting suicide was because
he had broken a promise made to his
wife that he would drink no more in
~toxicating liquor" DR.. Edward Haase,
aged 10 years, having suffered from
heart disease, committed suicide in st.
Louis on Saturday. He was on oculist.
George d. Rose, a prominent citizen of
Ogdensburg, New York, on the morn
ing of the Both ult., blew out his brains
with a gun. Miss Alice Cobb. "a years
of age, committed suicide in Portland,
Maine, on the morning of the Both ult.
She had shown symptoms of insanity.
j. M. Atherton's distillery at New
Hope, Kentucky, was burned on the
morning of the 30th ult. Loss $50 900
The Methodist Church on Pond street,
In Amesbury, Massachusetts, was de-
stroyed on the Both ult., by an incen-
diary fire. Loss $l2, 900.
-Four boys, aged from s to IA
years, were drowned on the Both ult. +,
by the ~upsetting of a sklf in the ALE
gheny river, lei South Valley, New
York.
The body of James Foley, aged IL
years, was found wedged, on the morn
ing of the LIST, between the bumpers of
a coal car and an oil tank In Shenan-
-doah, Pa. The boy had been playing
around the cars with several compan-
ions OF the evening of the Both ult.,
and when he was damned and killed
they ran away and did not tell of what
had happened. lie was not missed
from home that night, and the first
intimation his parents had of his death
was when they were informed of the
discovery of the body.
Two sharp earthquake shocks, witt
only a moments intermisslon, were
felt at Spokane Falls, Wyoming Terri.
tory, at 4 O'Clock on the morning of
the Both ult. People were awakened
from their sleep.
Thomas F. McGowan, District
Attorney of Queens County, New
York, has disappeared, and is said to
be a defaulter for nearly $4,000.
"a terrible hail storm visited st.
Paul, Minnesota. and the surrounding
country, at Z O'Clock on the evening of
the LIST. The hailstones "varied in size
from a pea to a full-grown goose egg,
some of the largest weighing four
ounces and measuring nine inches in
circumference Glass was broken
wherever exposed. A number of small
structures, chimneys, etc. were wrecked
by the wind. The day had been one
of summer heat.
A heavy snow storm at Salt Lake
City, (which continued in squalls for
about twelve hours" ended on the
morning of the LIST, ''leaving the ground
thoroughly soaked
"A freight train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad was wrecked near
Timberville Station, Virginia, on the
afternoon of the 9th. William Cooley,
brakeman, was killed and Edward
Russell, a conductor, badly injured.
"A fire in Louisville, Kentucky, on
the morning of the %, destroyed the
large warehouse of Brown, johnson
4 Co., the nine-story grain elevator of
Strater Brothers, fourteen loaded
freight cars of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, two dwellings and
two stables. The total loss is esti-
mated at about S220, 600. All except
one of the great wooden shops of the
Chicago Forge and Bolt Company, in
Chicago, were burned on the evening
of the "a. Four frame buildings, 500
feet in length, filled with costly ma
%chlnery. were destroyed. The loss is
estimated at Sl25, 000. During the fire
Bartlett Haslett, a spectator, was
fatally injured by a falling derrick, and
a fireman had one of his legs crushed.
No. 10 breaker of the Lehigh and
W~ilkesbarre Coal Company, at Sugar
Notch, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the I'd. Early in the
afternoon the coal in the mine was